Ep. 80 - Integrating Eastern Spirituality to the West

Ram Dass Here And Now

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🗓️ 17 July 2015

⏱️ 71 minutes

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The soil into which spirituality from the East was planted was not so rich in the early days. In India, everyone believes in re-incarnation and sees life from that perspective. In the West words like "Guru", "devotion" and "surrender" have a hard time being digested. Most of the people who are Saints in India would be hospitalized in the West. Now there seems to be a shift where we can honor these traditions in a way that does not water them down. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:55.0	Welcome to Rommedos here and now, and I'm Ragoomarkas back again. I've got a talk today from
1:21.2	May 1996 and what makes this super interesting and timely the fact that this came out of the library
1:35.2	and was pulled by Nathan and he remarked that he made a remark. It might be a little bit slow
1:45.9	getting going, but boy, does it come on like gangbusters? He was completely right about that. It's
1:52.9	about integrating Eastern spirituality to the West. He was asked to speak about that day and it
2:03.5	turned out in the course of the time I'm listening to this. He said, oh, so I, he says, I was just hanging
2:09.3	out with Tim Leary the day before in Los Angeles. Tim is dying and he is taking his death and using
2:20.3	it as a celebration. He talked about how unusual that that was and how Tim was downloading himself
2:27.8	onto his webpage. In this 1996, it's hard to believe how far back we're going now with the web.
2:40.0	So it brings an occasion up for me to say something about this wonderful new film called
2:47.6	Dying to Know with Tim Leary and Rommedos and the film was done by Gay Dillingham. It just opened
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